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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name given to the surviving infant?

2. What finally happened to Harry?

3. What fascinates the Magistrate about Lucy?

4. What did Fleury buy from one of the artillery women for ten pounds?

5. What happens to the Collector in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. What condition does the Collector find Hari in when he visits him in the tiger house?

2. What has happened to the Collector's leather goods and clothing and notepaper?

3. Who does Dr. McNab ask to look after the Collector and what transpires during that time?

4. What does Dr. McNab refer to as having been successful in the treatment of cholera which alarms the onlookers?

5. What does Lucy begin to do to cheer herself up?

6. What does each person carry with him or her during the cholera epidemic?

7. What does Rayne, who is in charge of the Commissariat, do to enrage the Collector?

8. What ingenious idea does Harry come up with to deal with the thick vegetation encroaching on the edges of the defenses?

9. What is the Collector sitting on and what is he discussing with the Padre in Chapter 31?

10. What does the Collector do when he returns to London?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe the physical problems the Collector gets that make him turn over temporary authority to the Magistrate.

2) What is the blinding "snow" which rains from the sky and what good effect does it have?

3) Fleury goes to the Collector's room and thinks he has cholera. What does Dr. McNab tell him the Collector is suffering from.

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe the final attack on the Residency. What are some of the comical moments which take place during this attack?

2) Describe Fleury's reaction to hearing the singing of prayers and the tolling of bells floating over the plain. What does he ponder while listening to the beauty of the singing?

3) Who ends up married to whom after the siege is over and life returns to normal?

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1) Two babies are born in the beginning of August. Which baby survives? What is it named? Who becomes its godfather?

2) What does the Collector do that is an affront to social protocol? This action by the Collector results in which character disappearing?

3) What clever suggestion does Harry come up with to help defend the Residency? Describe how it is implemented.

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

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